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Fishes with Warm Bodies

Not all fishes are cold-blooded. In some fast-swimming species of tuna and mackerel shark a "wonderful net" of arteries and veins conserves the heat of metabolism to increase the power of the swimming muscles

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 228 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Fishes with Warm Bodies” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 228 No. 2 (), p. 36
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0273-36